A New Antenna Shuffling Method for Hybrid Transmission Scheme

Herein, we propose a new method on antenna shuffling for a hybrid transmission scheme based on capacity metric. The capacity is calculated using the effective channel matrix, and the shuffling pattern associated with the largest capacity is selected. Simulation results show that compared to the conventional hybrid transmission scheme without antenna shuffling, the system performance is improved with higher capacity and lower BER. Furthermore, when small channel estimation errors exist at the receive site, a hybrid scheme with the proposed antenna shuffling achieves a lower error floor at the high SNR region.